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Mark James

After the screen had some kind of palsy in the pub in manchester on monday and we couldn't claim our winnings, me and alex hit the wetherspoons just down the road from uni today, where hex maniac is still in full swing. Sadly it wasn't a profitable venture but we had some good shouts including Alex...

Mark James

Lego rules and this is amazing: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/72542

Mark James

Phil Reynolds wrote:Interestingly, a word that no one has so far suggested here is MARMOSET and yet HWMBO and I both said it simultaneously when the question came up.

I thought of MARMOSET immediately too. Does this mean I'm gay? Not that there's anything wrong with that!

Mark James

Is it ok that I've done the survey even though I'm from Ireland? We have proportional representation here and it works just as well as any other system except for the fact politicians still get in.

Mark James

On today's final chase the chaser got the first question wrong but wasn't moved back a place. The team initially scored 24, shouldn't they have added one on to that when he got the first one wrong and the team got it right? That was a rule they introduced in the latest series - they're currently sh...

Mark James

On today's final chase the chaser got the first question wrong but wasn't moved back a place. The team initially scored 24, shouldn't they have added one on to that when he got the first one wrong and the team got it right?

Mark James

Here's a link to cheer everyone up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJbAT1wzS8U

Mark James

Jack Simmering wrote:those damn krauts deserve to be hit by a earthquake tsunami for nuking pearl harbor

Krauts? They can't even get their insults right.

Mark James

Gavin Chipper wrote:Hang on, what about Rhys Benjamin? We were all hoping that this would work out.

That's what I was wondering. I think Thomas Carey's been muscling in on Rhys's action though, and James Nguyen said he's been phoning her daily too.

Mark James

My favourite comics were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures. Specifically the Adventures ones cause there were other ones that were crap but the story lines in Adventures were amazing. Especially the one were April gets stranded in this town were all the residents are drugged and brainwashe...

Mark James

Add me please.

Mark James

Are the contestants told beforehand who the Chaser will be? Everytime they ask who they want or don't want it to be, it seems to be that person. Just a huge coincidence? I would guess the three of them are probably backstage and when someone says one they wheel that one out. I've noticed the better...

Mark James

Karen's on again.

Mark James

Angry Birds has instilled in me a deep hatred of triangles. Why do they have to be so structurally strong?

Mark James

Sophie, Seal is a singer from the 80s 90s era. Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMD2TwRvuoU for one of his more famous songs. Also this thread was originally created in 2009, long before your jolly jokes thread.

Mark James

Add me please.

Mark James

So Matt, once I'd finished all the levels I went off Angry Birds for a while, but now I'm RIGHT back into it, going through to get at least 2 stars on every level. And I've got to say, it's a lot of fun, and there's definitely a skill to working out what you've got to do in a level to satisfy the m...

Mark James

I don't understand modern songs which must be accompanied by frantic prancing round the stage. I don't understand this sentence. I think it is called the generation gap Ben. It was the same in my young days, when I was a locomotive fireman. The old Drivers couldn't stand our modern music in the 194...

Mark James

I have two boxes I keep the majority of my CDs in and all the CDs are not only in alphabetical order but each artist's albums are in chronological order. The rest are on a CD rack, not alphabetically though. Each shelf is kinda genre specific so the top two are stand up comedy (George Carlin's album...

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My eye's are intrinsically drawn to the bottom two thirds of the screen so if you wasn't for the noise you get from a challenge I'd never notice that someone had challenged me. The red dot's just not working for me. If it was lower down the screen it might. Also when I do go to the challenge screen ...

Mark James

At university we has a vending machine in our halls of residence. Once it gave out free Aeros (must have set the price to zero. My friend came up to my room and showed me this single Aero that he had taken and he seemed to be feeling really guilty about it as well. I went down with a bag... Also th...

Mark James

Joseph Krol wrote:Flight A is now full. Only peeps under 1200 rating points accepted.

My rating is currently 1327, can you make an exception and enter me? Don't make me do a James Nguyen and purposely lose points.

Mark James

Now that you've stopped giggling at the name, Stillorgan, I'll continue Blimey. Last time I went to Dublin I stayed at the Stillorgan Park Hotel. And it never even occurred to me that the area had a funny name. I'm losing my touch. :( I bloody well live in Dublin and never noticed. Also I only noti...

Mark James

I think I got extremely lucky there. Sometimes DJ random can play a blinder alright! To be fair there wasn't as much room as I was hoping on my iPod so I ended up having to be selective about what went on it so there's very little that I would be embarrassed about. And also I don't really get embar...

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What a great idea John. My five random tracks from my iPod are: TOOL - Parabola LED ZEPPPELIN - The Lemon Song PANTERA - Revolution Is My Name SPINAL TAP - Hell Hole DAMAGEPLAN - Breathing New Life I think I got extremely lucky there. Can't believe I even got five actual songs, I've tons of stand up...

Mark James

I'd love to see a vending machine that sells vending machines.

Mark James

So I notice that newspaper crosswords still have these "Stuck? Ring this number and for just 60p a minute we'll tell you the answers" (or thereabouts, anyway). I've wondered, for pretty much as long as I can remember, who bothers using these. Even before the Internet, which has surely mad...

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The smell of chlorine, petrol, curry. greasy spoon sausage sandwiches. my parents. Chlorine? That smells awful. I used to work in a swimming pool and got so used to the smell I can't really smell it any more. Although by that I mean chlorine that's already in the water. The actual chlorine by itsel...

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Yes. I like it a lot. Does your current comment mean season 3 has started? Or maybe the season 2 run has only just started on UK telly? My friend had downloaded a load of them and now Irish tv is showing it. They had an episode I hadn't seen last week but this week was one I had seen so I don't kno...

Mark James

Anyone watch "The Life and Times of Tim"? It's pretty funny.

Mark James

Yeah, but women tennis players now get the same amount of prize money as men even though they play less tennis.

Mark James

Haha, so because of the cricket I just read about ' Ireland's Call ' - hilariously awful. (And that's coming from someone who openly likes Eurovision.) Its horrendous Agreed. Phil Coulter is aural poison. The original Riverdance should be our national anthem and all the players could learn Irish da...

Mark James

Breaking news on sky sports, Michael Carrick signs new three year contract at Man U. What the hell is going on? He's bloody useless. I thought he'd be a definite for going in the summer along with Gibson and Obertan.

Mark James

Just get robots to drive the cars and put sensors on the cars so they can detect where anything they could crash into is so that they don't. If they can make programmable vacuum cleaners that go around the living room on their own without bumping into the furniture then they can do it with cars too ...

Mark James

Jason [...] George, I don't know if you realised, but I pulled this quote from March 2008. I just enjoyed the post and thought it worth sharing. I'm sure Jason's understanding of British humour has changed in the nearly 3 years that have elapsed. It has improved yes, but just recently I was playing...

Mark James

I climbed on the roof of a friends house at a house party and did the karate kid crane kick on the chimney while absolutely hammered drunk. How I didn't kill myself is beyond me. I can barely do it on the ground while sober without falling over.

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Rhys Benjamin wrote:http://apterous.org/viewuser.php?id=14641

Surely fake.

What's fake? The name Steven Gerard? Is it beyond the realm of possibility that there are more than one person with the same name? And even if it is a fake name it's hardly cheating.

Mark James

I adore roller coasters. Only been on a few though. My favourites were all in Canada's wonderland. The Behemoth, Flight Deck and The Bat probably being the highlights. The most frightening roller coaster I was ever on though was the shitty one at a place called Funderland. It's a once a year carniva...

Mark James

Coola bula. Cheers

Mark James

That was unlucky for Emmet. Your one time in the countdown studio and Rachel's got nothing on show. No legs or cleavage or anything. I suspect hubby to be was behind that outfit.

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Adam Gillard wrote:Probably not so famous but an absolute legend: Cliff Young (wiki) ((honestly, this is for real; not some fairytale))

Cheers for that Adam. What a legend (Cliff that is, not Adam, at least not yet).

Mark James

I don't think people need to report the games here any more, Ben can see them when they show up on apterous. To Mark James & James Bradley: I'm not able to add your game to the tournament system for some reason, so you'll have to play your matches 'manually' (for want of a better term). Does th...

Mark James

tell me if you like or dislike the following say 'dislike' if you dont like them and say 'like' if you like them and say 'middle' if youre not too keen on them but theyre alright. you can also put a comment of them (take no notice of their job - do you like their personality?): HARRY HILL (my opini...

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Marijuana can be grown in most environments where there are people with such ease and abundance as to make it virtually valueless and thus untaxable which is why I fear it is the real reason behind it's illegality. Not sure how much experience you have with growing but growing weed that is half dec...

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Check out this article: http://www.medicinenet.com/liver_cancer/article.htm It doesn't implicitly say westerners have developed a tolerance for alcohol but does show the instance of liver cancer is greater in Asia due to the rate of hepatitis b which can be brought on by toxic effects of alcohol. I...

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Plus alcohol's had the advantage in this country that it was the only way to purify drinking matter for a long time so westernised livers are better adapted to cope with it than say, Asian ones, that historically coped with brewed teas. Not heard of this before, what makes you think that? At a glan...

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Lesley Hines wrote:Can I please be 'The Voice of Reason' then?

I would have said yes until I read this: http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6620

Lesley Hines wrote:For example, the average tobacco smoker dies at 64, the average cannabis smoker at 44.

Mark James

Some nice moves from Ned during the last numbers game. Funkalicious!

Mark James

I only have the PS3 version unfortunately. I'd also like to say kudos to EA for updating the squads with the transfer window transfers. Pretty sure that didn't happen with FIFA 10. Robbie Keane is still trying to get a game with Liverpool on that.

Mark James

I knew I recognised him. I was saying it to me da and we both ended up thinking he was a member of our local leisure centre that we go to (I live in Ireland for those who don't know) and later my dad was even convinced that he had an Dublin accent. Such tools!

Mark James

Everyone likes true or false quizzes right? False, but anyway here are some true or false quizzes from the Mythbusters show;
http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythb ... /quiz.html

Mark James

I googled it too. Apparently shakira's was the official song and K'naan's was the official theme tune. Whatever the difference is?

Mark James

I thought the official world cup 2010 song was "Waving Flag" by K'naan. In the final chase, if the contestants get a question wrong, Bradley says what the right answer is which cuts in to their time. This doesn't happen to the chaser and I think its a distinct disadvantage for the contesta...

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Just tried googling "defaced by wazz" myself. It asked if I meant "defaced by waz" and led me to the Pakistani Defence Forum. Sweet.

Mark James

Soph K wrote: lol to the last 2

I'm devastated Sophie. I thought all four of them were funny.

Mark James

Actually apologies for the above post, it's probably overly simplistic and a bit flippant. I'm just a big fan of the ideas proposed by the linked movie. As I say it's a bit long but there are summarised versions of it near by. And why is there still a squiggly red line under the word movie. How is i...

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I would bet you £90 that there's more than 10 reasons why it wouldn't be pointless to go on Countdown and not win any games. I have 4 so far; You wouldn't have to lug a teapot around with you on your way home. You wouldn't need to bring a change of clothes. You get to stare at Rachel close up. You ...

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The Sky News teletext had a headline that said "Man responsible for Britain's Floods". Well find the bastard and stop him. Obviously they meant mankind.

Mark James

And yes, It's Costa Rica that has no standing army. But they were invaded by Nicaragua in November (based on Google maps showing the border between the two in the wrong place!) and, of course, they have no proper army to drive them out. And, one could argue that, if they had had an army, Nicaragua ...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w Here's the latest Zeitgeist movie. It's quite long but makes for interesting viewing. I highly recommend watching it if you can find the time. And yes, It's Costa Rica that has no standing army. Using the "Pointless" rules for determining what a c...

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